Batiashvili/Thielemann: Brahms

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Listening to the succulently noble sounds conjured by the conductor Christian
Thielemann from the Dresden Staatskapelle at the start of Brahms’s Violin
Concerto, it’s hard not to think about that conducting post at the Berlin
Philharmonic due to fall vacant in 2018. Thielemann has already been floated
as the leading local candidate to replace Simon Rattle, and you couldn’t ask
for a musician with stronger credentials in the central Austro-German
repertoire, if that’s what the Berlin players want.

Possibly he’s bit stodgy? Lisa Batiashvili, the concerto’s electrifying
soloist on this CD, thought so at first: the booklet note mentions her